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Web 2.0 and the Rise of the Thin Client

Web 2.0, AJAX, web apps, you know the buzzwords. But what's it all about? Personally, I think all these technologies are part of a bigger movement towards thin clients and mass online storage, with all our apps running on the network. I've been calling this trend Mobile 2.0 (yup, another buzzword for ya!), and it looks like Dan Grossman agrees with me. He links the trend to the release of 30gigs, the online storage site that I posted about a few days ago. It's also interesting to note that the 30gigs site is currently down...

30gigs.com is noteworthy for two main reasons. First, it shows that storage is really cheap. Second (and more interesting), thanks to services like 30gigs.com, I believe we’ll soon have a functional thin client/network computer. This is important because thin clients can be extremely useful in the right circumstances. For example, relative to “traditional” thick clients (ie an Intel box with Windows), thin clients tend to be far cheaper and easier to manage...

Here’s where 30gigs.com comes in. Using the “file locker,” customers now have an online disk drive in which files can be stored. 30 gigs is a lot of storage–enough for most users for a long, long time.

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